Glasgow Kiss by CS Duffy - Author Interview and Giveaway

Glasgow Kiss Episode 1. (Publication Date: February 7th, 2019) Genre: Thriller/ Serial Killer

How Far Would You Go To Catch A Serial Killer?

Haunted by the fact that he never got the chance to tell best friend Lorna that he loved her before she was murdered, Ruari sets out to track down the man he saw her with the night before she was murdered - the man police are certain was her killer.

Forensic psychologist Amy Kerr has been watching prominent Glasgow lawyer Alec McAvoy for months, certain that he is the so-called Dancing Girls Killer who evaded capture in London five years previously.

Now Ruari and Amy are closing in on the same man - but every step they take draws them deeper into the killer’s web.

“...completely addictive. Very fast paced with the short punchy time-stamped chapters adding to the sense of a fast-moving investigation.” - Joanne Baird, Portobello Book Blog

“...full of the Glasgow banter and humour laced with a good old-fashioned murder mystery. Lots of twists and turns and little pools of red herrings kept me engrossed all the way through.” - Sharon Bairden, Chapterinmylife Blog

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Quick Q&A with CS Duffy

Why should we read this series?

Glasgow Kiss is a fun, fast moving thriller. It’s funny in places and a lot of

readers so far have said they read it in one sitting!

Where did the story come from?

Years ago, I was working on an oil refinery in Ohio (long story!) when one of

my colleagues told me a story about her aunt going on a date in Seattle

in the seventies sometime. Apparently, the guy was an absolutely gorgeous

prince charming - she got terrible food poisoning on the way home and he

never called. For years she kicked herself thinking she had screwed it up

with Mr. Perfect by having a dodgy tummy. Several years later she spotted

him on the news: it was Ted Bundy.

The idea of having been so close to a monster and having a crush on him

fascinated me (I mean, I have pretty bad taste in men, but… !) and it rattled

around in my head for years before this story started to form.

How long did it take you to write this book?

It’s a bit of a tricky answer as the basic concept went through a few

different versions before it finally found its story. You’d never recognise it

now from those early versions, but they were all part of the process.

In terms of the story it is now, it went amazingly quickly in fact. I had a

random eureka moment when the whole story as it should be kind of

tumbled into place in my mind (I was walking down the stairs at Buchanan

St Subway station in Glasgow and nearly caused a pile up!). That was at

the beginning of May this year, and I spent the rest of spring and summer

in a mad, furious writing trance… and here we are!

What research did you to write this book?

I’m a weirdo who has always been a bit fascinated by serial killers, so I had

already read quite a bit before even starting. I met a detective in a bar one

Friday night who ended up helping me with some of the police procedure

which was very handy! The most fun research has just been wandering

around eavesdropping on Glasgow banter!

If you had to go for a drink with one character from the book, who

would you chose and why?

Ooh that’s a tough one, because I kind of love all of them! Lorna or Moira

would be great for a night out, though there’s a lot even I don’t know about

Amy yet, so I wouldn’t mind picking her brains over a bottle of red. And is it

weird if I have a bit of a crush on Ruari?!

Were there any real life inspirations for any of the characters?

Well it would be a spoiler to say which character, but I will say that Ted

Bundy inspired… somebody! Other than that, there are tiny elements of

people I know here and there, but none of the characters are directly

based on anybody.

What do you hope readers will remember about this book?

I did a poll in the private Facebook group for people who have read the

book in which I asked which of the characters readers would like to have a

drink with, and Lorna won by a country mile which made me really happy.

So often in crime thrillers the victim is kind of brushed over, defined mostly

by the fact they were murdered, and I really wanted the reader to feel as

though they knew her as a person.

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About the Author

C.S. Duffy writes crime thrillers with a healthy dose of black humour. Her background is in film and TV. She has several projects in development in Sweden and the UK and her other writing has appeared in Elle Canada and The Guardian. She is the author of Life is Swede, a thriller that was originally written as a blog - leading several readers to contact Swedish news agencies asking them why they hadn’t reported the murder that features in the blog. She was selected as a Spotlight author at Bloody Scotland in 2018.

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